This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
If the sun should tumble from the sky
If the sea should suddenly run dry
If you love me, really love me
Let it happen darling, I don't care
shall I catch a shooting star
Shall I bring it where you are
If you want me to, I will
You can set me any task
I'll do anything you ask
If you'll only love me still
when at last, our life on earth is through
I will spend eternity with you
If you love me, really love me
Let it happen darling, I won't care
If the sea should suddenly run dry
If you love me, really love me
Let it happen darling, I don't care
shall I catch a shooting star
Shall I bring it where you are
If you want me to, I will
You can set me any task
I'll do anything you ask
If you'll only love me still
when at last, our life on earth is through
I will spend eternity with you
If you love me, really love me
Let it happen darling, I won't care
Lyrics submitted by weezerific:cutlery
Hymne à l'Amour Lyrics as written by Marguerite Monnot Edith Piaf
Lyrics © RAOUL BRETON EDITIONS, Peermusic Publishing
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i think it's a very good translation. I have rarely seen such a good translation : both in the grammar and in the meaning, it's just perfect. It was a French song written by Edith Piaf who was a very famous singer after the second World War.
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